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  1. Write a complete bibliographic entry for the photograph you have selected.
rest stop for Greyhound bus passengers on the way from Louisville, Kentucky to Nashville, Tennessee, with separate accommodations for colored passengers."
[Sign: "Colored Dining Room in Rear."]
Location: E-5153
Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-62919

What is the setting of the photograph? The setting of the dphoto is Louisville, Kentucky near a grey houns bus stop in the south.
Indoors or out? Outdoors.
Lighting? Light comeing from th left
Urban or rural? rural.
What time of day or night? morning/mid day.

  1. Describe what you see in the photograph. Include specific details. Int his Photo we see a sighn saying where the dining room is for colored people painted on a bathroom, witch relects the peopleles views on the black community.
  2. Are there any people? No.
    Number?no
    Age(s)?no
  3. Clothing?no
    Color?no
    Distinguishing features?the sighn is printed on the front of a retroom in a wooded area.
    What catches your eye first? the small sign that says "men".
  4. What structures are in the photograph? a small white out house.
Homes or businesses? niether.
In what condition?The structer seems to be in good condition but has seen better days.
What is the spacing? a lone building
What surrounds the structures? Plants and small trees.

  1. What is the tone of the photograph? Discrimination/ culturaly frowned apon.
Heavy or light? heavy
Positive or negative? Negative
Dark or light? Dark

  1. Write a paragraph explaining your response to this question. Use specifics from your responses to the other questions to support your answer.
This pictur truly shjows how much community looked down apon the black community as a whole. The fact that they printed the sign telling where the black dining room is ont he front of a out hose shows that that they felt that the blacks were on of thenlowest forms of society and that they deserved nothing more that to eat at the back of a bathroom.
  1. Write two questions that you might ask the photographer or the subjects of the picture if you had the opportunity to learn more about the photograph or / and its subject(s).Louisville, Kentucky .
    Esther Bubley, photographer.
1) do u fell that this sign mockes africans?

2)what point are you trying to show?
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Lancaster, Ohio. August 1938.
Ben Shahn, photographer.
"Sign on a restaurant." [Sign: "We Cater to White Trade only."]
Location: F-9063
Reproduction Number: LC-USF33-6392-M4Indoors or out? Outdoors.
Lighting? Some what dim
Urban or rural? Urban.
What time of day or night? Afternoon.

    1. Describe what you see in the photograph. Include specific details. In this photo we see a sign that has been printed on the glass of a resurant that says that the rsturant only will serve white customers.
    2. Are there any people? No.
      Number?no
      Age(s)?no
    3. Clothing?no
      Color?white
      Distinguishing features?The sign is very specific in that it clearly states that black customers will not be rolerated of for that matter served.
      What catches your eye first? The small white paint on the window stating the resturants policy.
    4. What structures are in the photograph? the window of an eating establishment.
Homes or businesses? Buiness.
In what condition?Not much can be seen but what is seen seems to be in good condition.
What is the spacing? no spaceing is evident
What surrounds the structures? What i assume is the window of a resturant.

    1. What is the tone of the photograph? Very promentant and direct racisim.
Heavy or light? heavy
Positive or negative? Negative
Dark or light? Dark

    1. Write a paragraph explaining your response to this question. Use specifics from your responses to the other questions to support your answer.This photo shows direct racism that is not trying to cover its self up at all. IT also shows that the owner and operators of that facility are discriminatory twards blacks. Finally it portrays a dark and heavy feeling becaus eyou know how blacks must have felt if they were hundrey and had money to pay with.

    1. Write two questions that you might ask the photographer or the subjects of the picture if you had the opportunity to learn more about the photograph or / and its subject(s).
1) why did u fell the need to take this photo?
2) are you in favor of the sign message or against?

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    1. Write a complete bibliographic entry for the photograph you have selected.

Leland, Mississippi, in the delta area. November 1939.
Marion Post Wolcott, photographer.
"The Rex theater for Negro People." [Sign: "Rex Theater for Colored People."] (This is the same building and sign as in #23.)
Location: E-915
Reproduction Number: LC-USF34-52508-D
Indoors or out? Outdoors.
Lighting? Light
Urban or rural? Urban.
What time of day or night? Midday.

    1. Describe what you see in the photograph. Include specific details.Int he photoraph we see two black means atanding outside of a theatre fro blacks it si a small mockingly black building, next to what apears to be a resturant.
    2. Are there any people? yes.
      Number?two
      Age(s)?Late 50's/early 40s
    3. Clothing?work pants and shirt with suspenders.
      Color?black
      Distinguishing features?The letters are printed in big white block letters against a jet black brick serface.
      What catches your eye first? The extrem contrast between white and black on the building.
    4. What structures are in the photograph? A small single story theatre nest to what seems to be a resturant.
Homes or businesses? Buiness.
In what condition? It appeares in relativly new condition.
What is the spacing? Buildings are directly side by side.
What surrounds the structures? More structures of different purposes (such as resturants).

    1. What is the tone of the photograph?Blatent distinguishing between races.and what society felt theier right should be.
Heavy or light? heavy
Positive or negative? Negative
Dark or light? Dark

    1. Write a paragraph explaining your response to this question. Use specifics from your responses to the other questions to support your answer.This is a pictur of a movie theartre that althou had been build for black use, still has a vailed insult in its design, mainly how it is the onlt black structer onthe street and nsticks out like a sore thumb unlike the white stores which all have normal apearences.

    1. Write two questions that you might ask the photographer or the subjects of the picture if you had the opportunity to learn more about the photograph or / and its subject(s).
1) Do you agree wiht the point i make?

2)Does the structor remind you of an old jail house at all?